Opponents past and present have the same essential weakness about them: first they want to use you, then they want to be you, then they want to snuff you out.
Even if you time travel your past, it can't be changed, likewise you can't possibly change your future, it is always the present which matters.
Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal. -- from The Sexual Side of Spirituality
If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.
A good leader must have the wisdom to know when a pursuit is no longer worthy of being pursued - a time when the losses of the present must be accepted - and cut - to preserve the gains and providence of the future.
Presenting a humble façade gains trust; flattery appeals to ego; combine the two to gain an ego-based trust within someone, and you will find in your hands a judgement clouding tool second only to love.
I shall not dwell in the past... I shall not dread the present... I shall not fear the Future... For as Long as I live... I shall only think of success.
Christianity sees in the picture of Jesus as the Christ a human life in which all forms of anxiety are present but in which all forms of despair are absent.
I take it that he is more than just a woodcutter. "No one is just a woodcutter, " replied Terence. "A person's always more than his present occupation.
Everything you say to someone else is for your clarity, not theirs — you are presenting yourself, to yourself, for yourself at every moment.
That's what came from having romance in your soul. You believe in things like love at first sight and perfect presents.
Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. Especially seeing England presents thee with so many observables.
That had been the trouble with him and Betsy: what with his brooding about the past and worrying about the future, there had never been any present at all.
His son's transformation cannot be stopped, or hastened, or adjusted; the man he will become is already present, like a form emerging from a slab of stone. All that remains is to watch it happen.
Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we keep a hold on other people. Plant ourselves in their lives.
Learn from past experiences but accept them all as perfect while staying in the present. Let go of everything that doesn't serve you.
I personally believe this: We have only today; yesterday's gone and tomorrow is uncertain. That's why they call it the present. And sobriety really is a gift... for those who are willing to receive it.
MOTHER TIME: The past is always with us, dear, for better or worse. It is what it is and you can't change it. All you can do is learn how to live with it in the present.
It is more than just memory, I think, that binds us to the past. The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around...
It is my joy to share with present and future generations these stories so full of humor, warmth, and adventure – and so rich in the rural culture of the early 1900's.
